I'm passing out from phase 1 in about a week and one thing I've realised is that for me the issue boots are shocking, so when I start my phase 2 course am I permitted to wear my own purchased boots e.g Lowas or Altbergs?

I'm passing out from phase 1 in about a week and one thing I've realised is that for me the issue boots are shocking, so when I start my phase 2 course am I permitted to wear my own purchased boots e.g Lowas or Altbergs?

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Save your cash matey. I'd be saving my cash for getting the fook out of Blandford at the weekends not ally boots that will just get you gripped on the numerous early morning parades you will be attending.

Wait until your first unit, you may then be allowed to get your own or possibly not. It depends on the unit you go to. It's always fun going from a unit where you can wear your own to one where they insist on issue kit, which you have to dig out of the bottom of a dusty MFO.

You have to get a chit signed to say you can wear your own boots. The RSM has the forms and he signs it before you go and get it signed by your Troop Staffy then the form's kept in your Troop so they know who has permission to wear their own and who doesn't. It's a bit different from a working unit with it being a training unit. If you bang your tabs in outside the RSM's office first thing in the morning and ask for the form he'll square you away.

Jimmy, why did you have to tell him the truth? We were onto a good wind up and now you spoiled it.

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I can only apologise. I tried to delete it when I noticed the wind up posts telling him he couldn't but the forum software won't let me delete my post for some reason. I've PM-ed Disco, hopefully he can delete it before the kid sees it?

I can't believe anyone would believe that you're not allowed to wear your own boots though! Not even sprogs are that gullible!

Funny as hell, when I was in Iserlohn the duty clerk got gripped one weekend for wearing slippers in the orderly room. He explained that it was his concession to Sunday, so the Rasman wrote him a chit so he could pick up signals and stuff from RHQ in his slippers.